Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 106 NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1913 The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the Ci T0 IGNORE SUGGESTION OF WILSON California Senate Evinces Determination to Pass a Radical Anti-Alien Land Bill . A RESOLUTION TO DEFE R ACTION VOTED DOWN That End Sought Might be More Permanently attained by Federal Legislation—One Senator Declares Progres- sives Are Making a Colossal Blunder in This Case. —— Sacramento, Calf,, May 2—The Cali- fornia semate today showed a reso- lite determination to put aside the recommerdations of President Wilson and his envoy, Secretary Bryan, and pass an act prohibiting Japanese and other allens Incligible to _citizenship from holding land by purchase, or by lease for more than three years. In phraseology, the bill, as re-draft- ed by Attorney Geperal Webb, after many conferences ~ with Governor Johnson and the administration floor leaders, omitted the words “ineligible to citizenship” which are offensive to Japan, but those in charge of the bill repeatedly admitted in debate that the end sought was the same. Tacit Opposition by Democrats Democratic opposition was purely tacic The minority confessed its sympathy with the ends sought and freely criticized the bill, not as too drastic, but as too weak. Where the minority differed was its judgment of the means wisest to employ. This at- titude found its expression in a reso- lution offered by Senator Curtis and defeated by & vote of ten ayes to 26 noes. Senator Curtin's resolution proposed that: The Curtin Resolution. “The peopls of the state of Cali- fornia defer to the wishes of the pres- ident of the United States and this legislature will not at this session pass the bills advised against.” The condition was included that it be understood the pople of the state desired substantially the ends sought in the administration measure _and “that the president of the _United Etates be required to endeavor to se- cure such treaty or other agreement from any nation protestjng against the passage of the bille urder considera- tion as will effectually accomplish the end and purpose here mentioned; “And further, that If at any time the governor of California becomes con- Vinced that the success of such effort 1s improbable, he is hereby required to obtain an extraordinary session of the legislature. Arguments For Resolution. The chief guments advanced against the bill and in support of the Curtin_resolut! “1 That the bil discourteous to the president of the United States and the imperial government of Japan. “2 That the ends it sought might be better and more permanently attained by federal legislation. “3 That those opposed to it might invoke the referendum thus inhibit- ing effective action under its provi sions for a year and seven months, during which Japanese advised of the intentions of the state might acquire all the land they were able to buy without let or hindrance. Never Before So Sympathetic A Pres- ident “In 1907 and 1911,” urged Senator Curtin, “we had the same conditions and the same federal appeal, but with no assurances or promises of relief. ‘Why should we be so hasty now when we hearkened then?” “In_1879-80, when feeling against the Chinese ran incomparably higher than it does against the Japanese now, we found our relief in congress, not in the state legislature. “Never before in the history of the United States has a president gone so far to lend a sympathetic ear to the difficulties of a state as did President Wilson in sending the chief of his cabinet to counsel with us.” Boynton Amendment Opposed. Senator Shanahan thought the amendment offered today by Senator Boynton ;and adopted by the majority was a Weak spot. This amendment would permit Japanese and other aliens ineligible to citizenship to lease California lands for agricultural pur- poses for a term not exceeding three years. Senator Shanahan saw nothing in the language of the amendment to pre- vent Japanese from renewing three year leases indefinitely. His opposition was not answered. A Colossal Blunder. Senator Cartwright feared that the bill would surely lead to a test of the eligibility of the Japanese to citizen- ship, a test that might result con- to the wishes of the state. this reason,” he said, “T believe the progressive party in California is about to commit the most colossal blunder of its existence and it has committed many.” Senator Wright, republican, fought the bill because he believed the federal government had by treaty the right to wipe out any legislation California might emact ROOSEVELT ARGUES FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Ten Thousand Dollars Subscribed at New York Meeting. May be the great w York what promises suffrage parade in the hist American woman's struggle for Balloi—to be held along Fifth avenue a demc and women tonight in use. Theo- to the east, New York state, to women, and holding s right to be repre- )r of the state’s com- i convention, was the r. Dr._Anna Howard = National Amer- ican Woman Sufirage association, call- ed upon the country’s women to add new stars to the suffrage flag in 14 and four new stars in 1915. A brilliant pageant tableaux por- traying women's “dream of freedom” was a feature of the demonstration. Men and women depicted the march of feminine emancipation by repre- senting the states in groups—the 12 original, the 26 where women do not Yote, and the nine where they are en- franchised, with Alaska added to this group. Seciety leaders, actresses and opera simgers took part. Hope, hand~ maidens of freedom, women, her aleeping. sisters, justice and Columbi were among the other characters, w Madame Nordica taking the part of Freedom. : The orchestra section and every tier and balcony was overflowing with suf fragists. Suffrage banners, the na- tional flags, emblems of nine states and national women's _organizations and bunting indicating the presence of delegates from many states fluttered from stage and pillar. The audience ook every opportunity during pageant and epeeches to show its enthusiasm by waving the triangular vellow flag of the cause. When Colonel Roosevelt concluded speaking Dr. Shaw made an appeal for funds. Amounts as high as $100 were ibuted from all parts of the “In honor of Mrs. Pankhurst aroused a storm of applause. Twenty-five dollars to be contributed by my wife,” shouted one man. “Five om a man_who has been converted his wi promised another. Within twenty minutes from the time the collecting of subscriptions began nearls $10,000 was pledzed. Steamship Arrivals. Havre, May 1L—Arrived, steamer La Provence, New York. Liverpool, May 1—Arrived, steamer Cymric. Boston. Triesie. April Argentina, New 28 _Arrived, steamer York via Portland. Naples, April 28 —Arrived, steamer Taormina. New York. Liverpool, May 2—Arrived, steam- er_Adriatic, New York. Dover, May 2.—Arrived, steamer Va- @erland, New York for Aantwerp. Yale Debaters Defsated. New Haven, Conn., May 2.—The Har- ‘ward freshmen debaters, upbolding the aftirmative of the question: “Resolved, “that cabinet officers should be given a seat and a voice in congress,” defeated the Yale freshmen in the local leg of WHITMAN GOES ON WITNESS STAND. District Attorney Testifies at Trial of ex-Police Inspectors. New York, May 2.—District Attorney Whitman jumped into the breach to- day when the defense in the trial of the four former police inspectors ac- cused of conspiracy made an effort to rule out important testimony involving one of the quartette. The prosecutor motioned Detective Al Thomas, a de- tective on the district attorney’s staff, from the stand and took his alde’s place as a witness. Thomas had given testimony to show that former Inspec- tor John J. Murtha, who had not been materially involved by evidence previ- ously produced, had come to the prose- cutor’s home after being identified and sought immunity. The defense’s ob- Jection to the revelation as a breach of confidence caused Mr. Whitman's in- tervention. The prosecutor denied that Murtha's talk heard by Thomas had been confidential, Shortly after the prosecutor's ap- pearance as a witness the state rested its case. Counsel for the defense open- ed without addressing /the jury and called half a dozen witnesses in an ef- fort to show that the ex-inspectors— Murtha, Thompson, Hussey and Swee- ney—did not conspire to obstruct jus- tice by bribing grand jury witnesses to leave the state, as charged in the indictment. The defense will proba- Dbly rest tomorrow night and each side will sum up on Monday. A LAWYER DEBARRED FOR AMBULANCE CHASING. Invadéd Hospitals to Get Authority to Enter Lawsuits. New York, May 2—Ernest M. Welch, a local lawyer, was disbarred by the appellate division of the supreme court today for inter-state “ambu- lance chasing.” Welch went to Bridge- port, Conn, on July 12, 1911 the day after the wreck there on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad and Dby representing himself as a relative of some of those injured, obtained admission to two hospitals. At the bedside of the injured men, it was shown, Welch induced them to sign contracts whereby he was to bring suits in their behalf against the rail- road company for $50,000 damages. Several of these contracts were repu- diated when the vietims of the acci- dent recovered, and the facts were re- ported to the bar asociation. AVIATOR BEHEADED BY HIS PROPELLER Herman E. Janssen lost Footing- and Fell Into -Machinery. Oakland, Calif, May 2.—Herman E. Janssen, a Los Angeles aviator, was ‘beheaded by the whirling propeller of a hydro-aeroplane here.today while assisting Roy N. Francis to start the ‘machine, Francis, Jenssen and Tom Gunn, the Chinese aviator, went to the grounds to test out the hydro-aeroplane. Fran- cis mounted to his seat and was ready to start. The mechanician started the ropellers and Janssen, who had been olding the machine steady, was about to step to one side when he apparent- the iriansular debate tonight with Princeton, Harvard and Yale, Philadelphia’s Hottest May 2. Philadelphia, May 2—With the offi- thermometer Tregistering 38 ly lost his footing and fell into the machinery. Heat Prostration in New York. New York, May 2—Today was the hottest May 2 in the history of the local weather bureau. The mercury climbed up to 87 during the early afternoon and remained there two Cabled Paragraphs Pope to Resume Receptions. Rome, May 2.—Pope Pius X, impa- tient to resume his work, has decided to begin his receptions ef the cardi- nals tomorrow. Love Letters Sell for $32,750. London, May 2.—A packet of up- wards of 500 love letters of Robert and Blizabeth Browning was bought at auction today for $32,750 by & New York dealer. 20,000 Welsh Miners Strike. Cardiff, May 2.—Twenty thousand coal miners today laid down their tools at various pits in South Wales as a protest against the employment of nion unionist workmen in the mines. Votes for Swedish Women. Christiania, May~ 2.—The constitu- tional committee of the etorthing de- cided unanimously today to_introduce a Dbill bestowing the franchise upon women for all elections. With a rad- ical majority in the storthing, the pas- sage of the bill is assured. Mrs. Pankhurst in Nursing home. London, May 2.—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, _the militant suffragette leader, was today, with the consent of the authorities removed from the house in which she has been staying in London to a pursing home at Wok- ing, where she will remain under the supervision of the police. Valuable Ponies Coming Here. London, May 2—Forty-five ponies valued at $100,000 for the use of the British polo team in their attempt to win the international polo cup ' at Meadowbrook, Long Island, in June, were safely boxed this afternoon on board the Minneapolis, which will leave the Thames tomorrow for New York. MEXICO TO ELECT A PRESIDENT OCT. 26. General Diaz Expected to Be Leading Candidate—Huerta May Also Run. Washington, May 2—Flection for president of Mexico will be conducted Oct. 26 by the Huerta government, ac- cording to advices to the Mexican em- Dbassy hggetoday. The report said the date was agreed upon at a conference between Provisional President Huerta, General Felix Diaz,_ the cabinet and representatives of all parties in both houses of congress. General Diaz is now expected to be the leading candidate for the presi- dency. Many people believe, however, that General Huerta also will enter the race, and it is suggested that Francisco De La Barra, mirister for foreign affairs in the provisional cab- inet, also may be a candidate. Probably no adherent of the liberal policy of which the late President Ma dero was leader will enter the rac unless in the meantime peace has been restored. FOR COAST GUARDS. Bill Ta Consolidate Life Saving and Revenue Cutter Service. . (Special to The Bulletin) Washington, May 2—A bill consoli- dating the Life Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service under the name of the Coast Guard, has been introduced in the senate by Senator Townsend, of Michigan. The bill is the result of an agreement between the two services and has the approval of the secretary of the Treasury. It is practically the same bill that was introduced during the last congress, but not until now has the proposed consolidation had the support of all the interested parties. Under the terms of the bill the Coast Guard will constitute a part of the military forces of the United States will be under the control of the Treasury Department in times of peace but will be a part of the Navy in time of war controlled by the Sec- retary of the Navy. This change, the bill provides, will bé effective upon the | order of the President All the provisions of law relating to the retirement of the officers of the Revenue Cutter service are extended to the commissioned officers warrant officer, and enlisted men of the Coa. Guard. The officers and enlisted men who have served thirty-five years will be entitled to retirement at 75 per cent of their pay and allowances. They will also receive an increase of ten per cent of pay for every five vears of service. Senator Townsend in discussing the merits of his bill said: “This bill will not only harmonize a great many em- barrassing differences between the two services, but will be substantial rec- ognition of the great work that has been done by the Life Saving Service. | For years congress has refused to recognize what the Life Saving Ser- vice has done in the way of saving human life and property, but now I think their reward is near at hand The failure of congress to act b been due more on acount of the differ- ences of opinion as to what legislation to pass to carry out this plan, but now we seem to have reached an agre: ment which will actually reduce the xpenses of maintaining the two se ces and at the same time will give the Life Saving Service that which is justly due. BRANDEGEE’S BILLS. Pertain to Deaths and Damages in| Navigable Waters. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, May 2.—Senator Bran- degee introduced in he senate this week, a bill providing that whenever the death of a person shall’ be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, on the high-seas, the Great Lakes, or any navigable waters of the United States, the personal representative of the decedent may maintain a suit for damages in the district courts .f the United States in admirality for the exclusive benefit of the decedents wife, husband, parent, child or de- pendent relative, against the vessel, person or corporation which would have been liable to a suit by the de- cedent had not death ensued. Also, a bill permitting suits against the United States for damages caused by vessels owned or operated by the United States. Also, a bill authorizing the main- tenance of actions for negligence causing death in maritime cases. Our Panama Canal Obligation. St. Louis, May 1—“The United States is under a moral obligation to admit the ships of other nations to the Panama Canal in the same term on which it admits American vessels, sald former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks in an address before the American Peace Congress. Princeton Defeats Harvard. Cambridge, Mass, May 2.—Prince- ton freshmen defeated Harvard fresh- men in their annual debats tonight. Princeton had the afirmative side of the question: “Resolved. that members of the president’s cablnet ghould have hours. One heat prostration was re- first one of the year. a seat and volce in all discussions in both houses of congress. Personalities In the House KENTUCKIAN REFERS TO MANN'S WHISKERS. A STIRRING REJOINDER “I May Be Bewhiskered, But | Am Not lllinois Con- gressman—Cotton Schedule Discussed | | Bewhigkied,” Declares ‘Washington, May 2.—The democratic majority went ahead with tariff re- vision in the house again today with- out a serious hitch. There were in- numerable anlendments emanating from the minority, but they were vot- ed _down with monotonous regularity, The discussion opened witn citrus fruits, in the agricultural schedule, the Pacific coast growers waging an un- successful fight agalnst the cutting of the tariff on lemons, figs, raisins and dried grapes and other coast products, Efforts to increase the proposed duty on peanuts, to give beiter protection to the Virginia industry, also fell Mellen Defends His Slflvirdship NEW HAVEN PRESIDENT OFFERS EXPLANATIONS TO CAMPAIGN FUNDS Large Portion of the Mysterious $102,- 000 Was oCntributed—Did Not Profit Personally by Any of Transactions. Boston, May 2—An unqualified de- fense of his stewardship was made by Charles Sanger Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad company, before the Interstate Commerce commission today. Taking up in detail, one after the other, the charges that have been brought against his management of the railroad property and various transactions in which the New Haven or its subsidiary companies have figured, the president gave his ex- lanation of the questions involved. e hag practically the whole session was the persistent reaching out for veloped their great bustness. trade developing medium. In the past week the following Trade Developing Medium for succeeding which wise and foresighted merchants advocate. sistently and consistently used it is the most economical expense in Do it now and let The Bulletin demonstrate that it is a In most any undertaking the example set and the methods adopted by the successful business men can be tazken as a guide by those who are seeking to bulld up a prefitable which depends upon the patromage of the public. Take such men of prominence in the business world as the late Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, James J. Hill and many others who are familiar for the part they have played in becoming not only suc- cessful business men but leaders in their particular lines. @ humble beginning but all recognized the value of advertising and they made the most of it, and while their thrift and foresight played important parts it was the advantages which they took of printer's ink and continue to do today, which made their names worldwide. trade in any enterprise All made It trade by advertising which de- usthess enterprises. Bvery businessrian should adve ertise. That is an important rule Per- matter appeared in The Bulletin delivered at your door for twelve cents a week: |} Butetin Telsgraph Loca/ Gensral Total (| saturday, April26.. 148 144 977 1269 Monday, April 28.. 156 125 312 593 Tuesday, April 29.. 141 139 269 549 Wednesday, April 30.. 129 116 220 465 Thursday, May 1.. 157 122 337 616 Friday, May 2.. 167 107 207 481 Totals to o el . 868 753 12802 3973 —— through. The schedule covering spir- its, wines and other beverages went through without dissent, but consider- able fight was made by the represent- atives of textile districts when the cot- ton schedule was reached. Indulged in Personalities. Many of the speeches really dealt with the paragraphs of the tariff un- der consideration, but general politics and partisan personalities featured the debate. Representative Thomas of Kentucky had a few things to say about the republicans personally, and | the debate for a moment promised In- teresting developments when Republi- | can Leader Mann, stung by Mr. Thomas' reference to him as the be- whiskered gentleman from Illinois, re- torted that while it was true he was “bewhiskered,” at least he was not | bewhiskied.” Whisker Discussion. Whiskers figure conspicuously in the interchange of personalities_between | | Representatives Thomas of Kentucky | and Mann of Illinois. Mr. Thomas, criticizing remarks by some of the | minori leaders, amid convulsive | laughter, referred to Republican Lead- | er Mann as “the whiskered gentleman from Illinois,” to Representative Ford- ney of Michigan as “the hairless won- der from Michigan,” and Representa- | ive Murdock of Kansas as “the gen- tleman from Kansas who sports the sunset locks around the house.” Mapn Hits Back at Thomas. Mr. Thomas advised Mr. Mann to set shaved and asserted that the mi- nority leader consumed volumes of the Congressional Record with his “mixed metaphors and insipid nothingness, and so cost the government possibly 10,000,000 since he has been rattling around on that side of the house.” Mr. Mann ended the incident by say- ing that Mr. Thomas has “hair on the brain but none on the top of his head.” “The ‘gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Mann added, “says I am bewhis- kered. That is true, but at least I am not bewhiskied.” Took Shot at Bull Moosers. Representative Thomas called the progressive party a “patent medicine advertisement scheme,” and criticized Rapresentative Payne of New York for reflecting upon President Wilson be- cause the president went to New Jer- sey In connection with state legisla- tion. Representative Heflinger of Alabama declated that people did not realize that the real tax-on the American peo- ple under the present tariff law was $2,400,000,000 instead of $300,000,000 of revenue fax and arraigned the repub- lcan claim that the law protected the American farmer and laborer. Republicans Split on Cotton Schedule, Several committes amendraents wers agreed to, changing the bill in minor particulars, including one designed to put the sweetened varieties of choco- late and cocoa on the list of the higher basis of confectionery, The split in the republican minority of the ways and means committee on the question of offering a substitute for the cotton schedule was evidenced during the consideration of the cotton tariff, Representatives Moore of Penn- sylvania and Fordney of Michigan in- sisted that minority substitutes were a waste of time, but Representative Gardner of Massachusetts offered a substitute for three paragraphs of the cotton schedule, a compromise be- tween the Underwood and the Payne tariffs, This was voted down, along with all other amendments from the republican side. Representative Palmer of Pennsyl- to himself and his testimony occupied three and one half hour: Contributed to Campaign Funds. While replying to questions of Com- missioner Charles A, Prouty and Charles F. Choate, Jr, his personal counsel, Mr. Mellen refused to sub- mit t> cross examination by others. He appeared as a voluntary witness, his testimony was mnot given under oath and it was explained to him that the information given by him today would not render him immune in any prosecution the federal government might nndertake. At the cutset President Mellen de- nied that he haq profited personally to the extent of $102,000 by selling three million dollars worth of stock of the New Haven company for which he had given his notes. He said that 50,000 of the money in questioa was paid into the republican campaign fumd in 1904; that $6,500 went to the Rhode Island republican state cen- tral commitree; other sums to the r> publican orzanizations in New York and Connecticut and the balaace for pier leases and other acquisitions. Courtroom Crowded to Its Capacity. The United States Circuit Court room never held a greater crowd than it did today. Bvery inch of stand- ing room was occupied and it was necessary to rope off the corridors of the federal building to keep back another crowd, Every word ths rail- vanid, Peters of Massachusetts and Kitchin of North Carolina, for the Wways and means committes, defended the cotton schedule. Mr. Palmer said that against the $1,500,000,000 worth of products covered by this schedule that are produced in the United States the imports of the same classes of ggods aggregated a little more th: - 000,000, Gt Representative Mann sald the repub- licans would offer a motion to recom- mit "l.‘tet bul!i to the ways and means committee with directions to conf. to the tariff board. 5 s Ol;n'\ The Gardner Amendment. . The Gardner amendment, represent- ing the views of Mr. Gardner of Mas- sachusetts and Mr. Greene of Iowa, of the ways and means committee minor- ity, was explained by Mr. Gardner. The amendment offered as a substitute would have fixed a rate ranging from 5 per cent. on the plainest kind of cot- ton cloth to 42 1-2 per cent. on the very finest weaves. Field Day for Orators. It.was a field day for orators on both sides of the house ang the vet- erans in the chamber vied with the boy orators among the new members in their elocutionary efforts. The in- iquities of the protective tariff theory ‘were lashed in ringing perieds by the democrats and the dark days of the panic of 1893 with its soup houses and ruined industry were described by the republicans ag the results of dem- ocratic doctrine exemplified in the ‘Wilson bili. The Infallible Reports In the press that the price of coal has dropped while the price of ice \has coared leads ome to assume that® spring is indeed here.—Chicago Record-Herald., Anything for a Job. Mr. Bryan'’s Sunday school class will be crowded with offico seekers who want to get next—Atlanta Com- stitution. Condensed Teiegrams lortimer L. Schiff Resignad as digec- tor of the Pacific Mail company. Mtuchen, N, J. is Seeking to snd Some person to act as mayor without salary. Four Harvard Professors have salled for South America, where they will study tropical diseases. Fire in the Miuhiqan Central railroad car shops at Detroit yesterday caused a property damage of $100,000. More Than 1,500 Building Trades’ | workers in Peoria, Ill, have struck for higher wages and shorter hours, The Wisconsin Assembly yesterday passed a resolution extending svmpa- thy to the suffragettes of England. Ilinois State Has Adopted the carna - tion as the flower and “On the Banks of the Wabash” as the state song. William T. La Follette, brother of Senator La Follette, died of heart dis- ease at Madison, Wis., aged 66 years. An Equal Suffrage Amendment was defeated im the Florida house yester- day by a vote of 26 to 38 after lengt! debate. The D. Rockefellar at Tarrytown are planning Italian Employes of John to strike for a wage cents a day. increase of 13 Woerk is Being Rushed on the Pan- ama canal in order to open it Octol next. Men are workins in 12 hou shifts on the Culebra Cuf The Hod Carriers’ Strike at New Britain is still on. The union has vot- ed to compromise on $2.8% eight cents more than the offer. per 4 employers William Harmony Lamar of Rock- ville, Md., yesterday was appointed assistant attorney general for the post- office department, to succeed Russcll P. Goodwin of Aurora, IlL, resigned. Judge Robert F. Raymond of the superior court collapsed while on the bench at Worcester, Masg., yesterday. and was sent to the Worcester hosp.tail for treatment. Henry Burnham, Aged 13, was seri- ously injured at East Hartford vester- day, when he was struck by an auto- mobile belonging to Henry Katz of| Hartford and driven by his son Jack London, the Author, has been invited by Captain J. Toft, a Chinese Bea navigator, to accompany him on his cruise across the Atlantic ocean in 2 dugout canoe of California redwood. Harry K. Thaw is.to be a state's ness at the trial of John Nicolson An- | hut, the lawyer indicted for bribery in an alleged attempt to secure Thaw's release from the Matteawan asylum. Rev. J. Howard Adams, pastor for a | year of the First Baptist church at| Rockyille, Conn., has tendered his res- ignation, effective May 25. Illness of his wife s given as the reason. He| went there from Stonington. Wilmington, Del., ceased to be a| “Gretna Green” when the new marriage | license law went into effect Thursday. and it was impossible for any couple | to be legally married in Delaware for 24 hours after it became effective. Effective July 1, a reduction of 50 per cent, in the rates for commercmll messages not exceeding ten words fo all points in_Alaska will be made oy the United States Signal Corps, { erating the military cable between Sc- | attle and Alaska. | | J. F. Hutchins of Lynn was awarded | $109,168 by a jury at Salem, Mass., | yesterday for his work in obtainias 2,500,000 for the use of Thomas G.| Plant in forming a shoe miachine man- ufacturing concern in opposition to the United States Machiners company. “l Do Not Believe One Word of Dil- lon F. Dunbar's statement in regard to the murder of Mattie Hackett,” said Sheriff Colby Getchell of Augusta, Me upon his return from New York, whers with County Attorney Willlam H. Fisher he Interviewed the prisoner at Blackwell's Island. { Jesse M. Short, a ion: Mine | owner of Joplin. Mo., was shot and se | rously wounded and the passengers on the Kansas City Southern Gulf Coast train were robbed by a man wearinz a | ndkerchief over the lower part of | his face, soon after the train left the | Grand Central station at Kansas Cit Mo., about midnight Thursday. Th bandit escaped. { road man uvttered was listened to with tha clogest attention. Railwhy officials, government attor- | neys, including special Assistant At- tornéy General Gregg and a host of other prominent lawyers eat within the bar enclosure while the occunants of the spectators’ benches ropresented all phases of industrial activity. Billard Entitled to All He Received. | Mr. Mellen discussed various note transactions, saying that in every case the New Haven company has | been pald in full, and. that the only money that had come to him person- ally was to reimburse him for es- penses contracted in the conduct of the company’s business. The notes, he said, were merely temporary vouchers for money used in the rallroad’s behalf. An apparent profit of $2,700,000 to John L. Billard of Meriden, Conn., for his part in the acquisition of the Bos- ton and Maine by the New Haven, was dwelt on by Mellen. who sald that the commission’s account- ant, David E. Brown, has testified about the transaction on the assump- tion that the book value of certain securities represented their real value, when as a matter of fact, their actual value was much les He added that when the transac- tion_should be concluded Mr. Billard would not have recoived any more than that to which his worst enemy would say he was entitled. Pullman Contract Best Ever Made. He declared that the contract under which the New Haven turned over its parlor and sleeping car service to the Pullman company was the best contract that any railread company ever made with the Pullman people. Admitting that the cost of the con- struction of two subsidiary roads,.the New York, Westchester and Boston and the Hampden railroad, had béen greater than anticipated, he insisted that both would prove good fnvest- ments and ultimately return a profit. The hearing will be resumed to- morrow when E, D. Robbins, genera ceunsel for the New Haven road, will be cross examined by Attorney Louls D, Brandels, who has been active in the investigation, Commissioner Prouty will return to Boston after arguments in the New Haven ease have been made ai Washe inglon mext Wednesday ty’s Population Action Follows Refusal of Railroads to Arbitrata Demands For Increase in Wages ' b INVOLVES 100,000 MEN ON EASTERN ROADS Railroad Managers Take Strong Attitude Against Arbitration —Wages of Engineers and Firemen Already Increased by Arbitration—Trainmen Claim That Dividends In« creased 429 Per Cent., But Wages Only 39 Per Cent. . New York, May 2.—A strike vote of the 100,000 conductors and trainmen on railroads in eastern territory was ordered tonight by the men's repre- sentatives who have been in confer- ence with the raiiroad managers over the demands for an increase in wages recently submiited by the employe The roads yesterday denied b men’s demands and today refused a proposition to_submit the dispute to arbitration. This refusal was speed- ily followed by a meeting of the men's committee at which®it was decided to order a poll of the men to determine whether the power to call a strike should be put in the hands of the leaders. Vote Will Require Two Weeks. Formal notice of this action was served upon the roads this evening in a letter signed by A, Garretson president of the Order of Railway Con ductors, and W. G. Lee, presideni of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. It is expected that the polling of the vote will occupy two weeks or mor “After the vote is taken” Mr. Lee said tonight, “we will again request a_conference with the representatives of the railroads and at that confer ence we will tell them the result of the vote. Fll say now that T dom't expect to have o tell them that the vote was against a strike. Increase Granted Engineers and Fire- men. The wage dispte of the conductors and trainmen has so far followed that of the engineers and firemen, both these classes of employes having witl in the past year been granted in- creases in pay after prolonged con- ferences, the polling of strike votes and the final submission of the issues to an arbitration board. In the case of the firemen, only recently conclud- ed, the Prdman law was invoked. The railroads have taken a strong attitude against arbitration in the present pro- | ceeding—In the letter sent to the con- ference committee of managers of railroads tonight, the conductors and trainmen take issue with a number of statements in yesterday’s reply of the railroads refusing the employes’ wage demands, Subject Stockholders to Inquiry. #While ing that the emplo; must have more money if the public interests have to be taken care of and | your committee constituting itself sole judge between the public intersts and th employes, why not also determine,” | | says the letter, “whether the owners of Tailway stocks may not be subject- flfl to some inquiry in this conten- on.” Admitting that there have been in- creases of conductors and trainmen's wages in the past years and quoting figures of comparative rates of pay, east and west, with the lower rates prevailing in the east, the letter addss| Dividends Increased 429 Per Cent. “Against this percentage of increase for conductors and brakemen, which s set up as an excuse why further in- creases should be granted in this ter- ritory of low rate pay and onerous conditions of service, let us see what the stockholders record is in the way of increase in dividends paid during the same period.” o Figures are quoted to show that im 1890 a tofal of $87,000,000 in divends was paid to holders of railroad stock in the United States, while in 1910 the dividends amounted to $460,000,000, “thus showing an increase during that period of 429 per cent. in the amount paid as dividends.” Stookholders Should Share in Sacrifica The letter asks: “Ig it legitimate to demand that aM sacrifice to the public interest mugt be made by a class of men who have only received 39 per cent in increases during the period since 1890 and levy no tribute for the public interest upom the stockholder who has, in the same period, received 429 per cent of in- crease in his returns from his invest« ment.” WOULD COST $17,000,000. Railroads Say There is No Justifioad tion for Increase, New York, May 2.—A reply from the railroads was quickly forthcoming was sent to Messrs. Garrettson and Led tonfght. In it the managers declars that the $30,000 increase in waged granted conductors and trainmen in 1910 “was due to the fact that the railroads accepted this burden rathef than subject the country to the calam- ity of a strike.” The increase now ask- ed would amount to $17,000,000, it i3 declared; there has been no change in conditions of work since then, andl higher ratts in other territories “were secured through coercion and are no justfication for increasing the already iiberaj wages paid in the eastern ter« ritory.” MRS CATT ADDRESSES BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES Denunciation of the Government Pop- ular With Speakers At an actresses tonight in London May 2 Franchise League meeting Drury Lane theater, M Carrie Chapman Catt of New York, president of the International Suffrage Alliance, delivered the first speech she has made since her arrival in England Mrs. Catt said that during the three days she has been in London, which she had.devoted to attending suffragette meetings, she had heard more com- plaints against the British government than she had heard against the Amer- ican government during her whole life. And Mrs. Catt heard a lot more of complaints during the course of to- night’s meeting, for every speaker de- nounced the British government and in addition resolutions strongly con- demning ing in a bill enfranchising were adopted with enthusiasm The denunciation of the ministry by the actresses was mild, however, when compared with the abuse heap- ed upon it by speakers at an indigna- tion meeting of the Women’s Freedom league in Caxton hall A few phrases culled from the speech of Miss Nina Boyle, a militant _suffragette, will serve as samples She said the gov- ernment was comprised of “cads and cowards” and that the ministers were a “disgrace to the name of British- ers.” Misn Boyle called for militant volunteers and hinted at an outbreak of militancy that had been planned “that will show this government what a pitiful opinion we have of it.” GOVERNOR CLARK VETOES AN ANTI-ALIEN MEASURE. One of Last Official Acts of Alaska's Retiring Executive. Juneau, Alaska, May 2.—Judge Walter F. Clark Thursday vetoed the anti-alien fishing bill aimed at Japan- ese fishermen just before the Alaska legislature adjourned sine die. The bill passed both houses unani- mously but when the governor's mes- sage was recelved there was no at- tempt to pass it over his veto. women. Baseball as Aid in Arithmetic. ‘Washington, May 2—Baseball 1s being injected into the curriculm of the schools of the national capital as on aid in the teaching of arithmetic. This developed today when groups of school children were discovered read- ing the baseball news eagerly inter- rogating_each other as to the best means of figuring averages. It tran- gplred that teachers in arithemetic have been using problems in their classes such as the following: “If Chick Gandll is .at bat forty times and makes twelVe hits what is his average? “If the Nationals win eleven games out of fifteen what per cent do they lose?" The new system Is said by the in- structors to be highly successful. Theater Manager a Suicide.| Beston, May 2.—While playgoers were entering the Boston theater to- night, William H, Lothrop, assistant menager of the house, and widely known In theatrical circles, committed micide by shooting, He was found in a dying cendition on the floer of his fvate office, No reason is known for is met, Lothrop had been joking with friends only a few minutes before the the government for not bring- | PROF. TAFT DELIVERS i FIRST YALE LECTURH Does Not Believe Now School of Po litical Thinkers Will Triumph. New Haven, Conn, May 2.—Prol fessor Willlam Howard Taft todaw gave the first of a serles of lectures at Yale on questions of Modern Gow= ernment, in which he declared that ha aid not believe that the new school of political thinkers that has sprung up within the last decade, will ultimately: triumph. [ He said the new school had attacked the wisdom of our fathers and would reject the fundamental principles of ! our democratic form of government as embodied in the constitution. * cannot believe” he said, “that this school of philosophy wliil ultimately | triumph. That it may contain some elements of truth and useful principle, | leading to some changes and amend- {ments in our laws of a prominent | character may be; but that it is going : to give a radical change in the strue= | ture of our government and do away with the fundamental principles, # | cannot believe.” { | "Mr. Taft discussed at some length | the preamble of the constitution,” | dwelling_particularly on the meaning of the words “We, the people.” Tha lecture was given in Lamvson Ly= | ceum, which was crowded. The next lecture will be given Monday. PROVIDE CARE FOR 1,000 GIRLS A YEAR. Women of Underworld Predominatey Says a Salvationist. o Chicago, May 2.—One thousand girle ' a year come to the local Salvation Ar- my rescue and maternity home, and of the children born there 85 per cent. are illegitimate, according to the t 1 of Miss Anna Hanstin, superintend before the legislative investigation committee today. 3 “We have taken care of all kinds girls—drug fiends, drunkards & Wwomen of the underworld, but the last predominate,” said Mies Hanstin. “The only promise we exact of applicants is that they will nurse,their own bables and take them with them when they leave. We keep track of them whem we can after they leave us, but many | are foreigners who return to Europe’ 4 y it S ~ Steamers Renmsrted by Wireless. | New York, May 2.—Steamer Cand | pathia, Naplés for New York, signaks | Jed 739 miles east of Sandy Hook at # p. m. Dock late Sunday or § & ms Monday. 7 Sable Island, May 2.—Steamer Cars onia, Liverpool for New York, signalled 785 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10 a m. Dock 8 a m. Sunday, Steamer Phila, Southamptori for New - York, signalled 630 miles east of Sandy Hook at 11 & my Dock R e ot s 2. —Steamer iasconset, ., May ¥ Cedric, Liverpool for New York, mig~ | nalleq 365 _miles east of s-&'m at_noon. Dock 2 p. m. Sat ) Steamer San Giovanni, Ni New York, signalled 340 miles of Bandy Hook at noon, Dock Saturday. Lizard, May 1—Steamer New New York for Plymouth, Cherbo {and Southampton, 484, midnight, May 1st, due 1y Steamer Oceanic, New York for Pt mouth, Cherbourg and Bout " 276 miles west at 1045 & m. ] m. S Bl s 1 Plymouth 8 a. iasconset, Mass., shot was heard, He was 34 years old at 6 p, m. y Al